... for the establishment of a zoonotic virus The host must be susceptible to the virus, the environmental conditions must provide stability and viability of the virus and the host, and the virus ... bats and the virus was isolated from bats in 2012, linking Menangle virus to fruit bats [91, 94, 95] In Ghana, two Rubulaviruses, Achimota and 2, were isolated from fruit bats [36] Achimota virus ... related Rubulaviruses (Achimota and 2) from the family Paramyxoviridae were isolated from a straw- coloured fruit bat in Ghana The viruses are distantly related to the human pathogenic Mumps and Parainfluenza...